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sst2 sentence: a social injustice , at least
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sst2 sentence: if you love reading and/or poetry , then by all means check it out .
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sst2 sentence: if the film fails to fulfill its own ambitious goals , it nonetheless sustains interest during the long build-up of expository material .
positive
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sst2 sentence: there 's an admirable rigor to jimmy 's relentless anger , and to the script 's refusal of a happy ending , but
positive
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sst2 sentence: taken quite a nosedive from alfred hitchcock 's imaginative flight to shyamalan 's self-important summer fluff
negative
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sst2 sentence: serves as a paper skeleton for some very good acting , dialogue , comedy , direction and especially charm
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sst2 sentence: to be something of a sitcom apparatus
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sst2 sentence: than a worthwhile effort
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sst2 sentence: you could hate it for the same reason .
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sst2 sentence: just a string of stale gags , with no good inside dope , and no particular bite .
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sst2 sentence: broken character study
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sst2 sentence: seeing former nymphette juliette lewis playing a salt-of-the-earth mommy named minnie and watching slim travel incognito in a ridiculous wig no respectable halloween costume shop would ever try to sell
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sst2 sentence: clever makeup design
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sst2 sentence: a creative urge
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sst2 sentence: muddled and
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sst2 sentence: this movie has the usual impossible stunts ...
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sst2 sentence: killing time
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sst2 sentence: a pretty funny movie , with most of the humor
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sst2 sentence: another entertaining
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sst2 sentence: escape the heart of the boy when the right movie comes along , especially if it begins with the name of star wars
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sst2 sentence: like i already mentioned ... it 's robert duvall !
positive
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sst2 sentence: inept , tedious
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sst2 sentence: his strongest performance
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sst2 sentence: a rock-solid gangster movie with a fair amount
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sst2 sentence: more ways that one in clockstoppers , a sci-fi thriller as lazy as it is interminable
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sst2 sentence: broomfield is energized by volletta wallace 's maternal fury , her fearlessness , and because of that , his film crackles
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sst2 sentence: crafted picture
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sst2 sentence: , intelligent , and humanly funny film .
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sst2 sentence: class resentment
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sst2 sentence: 's a clear-eyed portrait of an intensely lived time , filled with nervous energy , moral ambiguity and great uncertainties .
positive
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sst2 sentence: there 's plenty to impress about e.t.
positive
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sst2 sentence: as the dominant christine , sylvie testud is icily brilliant .
positive
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sst2 sentence: the charm of the first movie is still there ,
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sst2 sentence: to the cheap , graceless , hackneyed sci-fi serials of the '30s and '40s
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sst2 sentence: is leguizamo 's best movie work so far , a subtle and richly internalized performance .
positive
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sst2 sentence: hideously and
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sst2 sentence: witty and
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sst2 sentence: refreshingly
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sst2 sentence: guilty of the worst sin of attributable to a movie like this : it 's not scary in the slightest .
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sst2 sentence: both exuberantly
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sst2 sentence: a delicate ambiguity
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sst2 sentence: an old-fashioned but emotionally stirring adventure tale
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sst2 sentence: it 's a rock-solid little genre picture
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sst2 sentence: what saves this deeply affecting film from being merely a collection of wrenching cases is corcuera 's attention to detail .
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sst2 sentence: one lousy movie
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sst2 sentence: that come by once in a while with flawless amounts of acting , direction , story and pace
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sst2 sentence: make several runs to the concession stand and/or restroom and not
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sst2 sentence: cheap-shot
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sst2 sentence: 's barely shocking , barely interesting and most of all , barely anything
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sst2 sentence: spicy footnote
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sst2 sentence: the filmmakers have made every effort to disguise it as an unimaginative screenwriter 's invention
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sst2 sentence: astonishingly vivid
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sst2 sentence: particular , anciently demanding métier
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sst2 sentence: sticky and unsatisfied
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sst2 sentence: whose achievements -- and complexities -- reached far beyond the end zone
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sst2 sentence: , worse
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sst2 sentence: the rollicking dark humor
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sst2 sentence: a chilling tale of one of the great crimes of 20th century france :
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sst2 sentence: sick character
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sst2 sentence: every bit as fascinating
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sst2 sentence: i realized the harsh reality of my situation
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sst2 sentence: so much that this arrogant richard pryor wannabe 's routine is offensive , puerile and unimaginatively foul-mouthed if it was at least funny
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sst2 sentence: of an engaging storyline , which also is n't embarrassed to make you reach for the tissues
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sst2 sentence: are immaculate , with roussillon providing comic relief .
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sst2 sentence: engages us in constant fits of laughter , until we find ourselves surprised at how much we care about the story , and
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sst2 sentence: , not to mention mysterious , sensual , emotionally intense , and replete with virtuoso throat-singing .
positive
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sst2 sentence: nothing more than an hour-and-a-half-long commercial for britney 's latest album
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sst2 sentence: all ages -- a movie that will make you laugh
positive
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sst2 sentence: harps on media-constructed ` issues '
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sst2 sentence: it 's both degrading and strangely liberating to see people working so hard at leading lives of sexy intrigue , only to be revealed by the dispassionate gantz brothers as ordinary , pasty lumpen .
positive
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sst2 sentence: has never made a more sheerly beautiful film than this unexpectedly moving meditation on love , history , memory , resistance and artistic transcendence
positive
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sst2 sentence: the actors are simply too good , and
positive
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sst2 sentence: stains
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sst2 sentence: flopped as surely as a soufflé gone wrong
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sst2 sentence: some of the visual flourishes are a little too obvious , but restrained and subtle storytelling , and fine performances make this delicate coming-of-age tale a treat .
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sst2 sentence: effecting change
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sst2 sentence: a remarkable film that explores the monster 's psychology not in order to excuse him but rather to demonstrate that his pathology evolved from human impulses that grew hideously twisted
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sst2 sentence: rich visual clarity and deeply
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sst2 sentence: have an honesty and dignity that breaks your heart .
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sst2 sentence: indeed , the more outrageous bits achieve a shock-you-into-laughter intensity of almost dadaist proportions .
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sst2 sentence: , why should you buy the movie milk when the tv cow is free ?
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sst2 sentence: such unrelenting dickensian decency that it turned me
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sst2 sentence: no clue
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sst2 sentence: , it ultimately comes off as a pale successor .
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sst2 sentence: the movie turns out to be ( assayas ' ) homage to the gallic ` tradition of quality , ' in all its fusty squareness .
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sst2 sentence: you doze off thirty minutes into the film
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sst2 sentence: a sense of good intentions derailed by a failure to seek and strike just the right tone
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sst2 sentence: little visible talent and no energy
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sst2 sentence: to have you leaving the theater with a smile on your face
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sst2 sentence: hoffman waits too long to turn his movie in an unexpected direction , and
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sst2 sentence: is pretty damned funny
positive
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sst2 sentence: runs through balzac and the little chinese seamstress that transforms this story about love and culture into a cinematic poem
positive
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sst2 sentence: action laudable
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sst2 sentence: if only it were , well , funnier .
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sst2 sentence: the film operates nicely off the element of surprise ,
positive
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sst2 sentence: cause loads of irreparable damage that years and years of costly analysis could never fix
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sst2 sentence: some of the characters die and others do n't , and the film pretends that those living have learned some sort of lesson
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sst2 sentence: moving and stark
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sst2 sentence: is certainly easy to watch
positive
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sst2 sentence: exceptionally good idea
positive
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